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February 22, 2006
Good Fun With Pointed Sticks
John Bolton continues to act like someone who actually deserves the Nobel Peace Prize--he's doing his level best to get the criminally slothful UN to take effective action to stop the genocide in Darfur (hat tip: Logical Meme). From the New York Sun:
Mr. Bolton signaled America's sense of urgency on Darfur when he elevated the issue to the top of the Security Council's agenda on assuming the council's presidency for the month of February. Just three days into the presidency, Mr. Bolton encouraged the council to issue a statement calling for the replacement of the 7,500-troop-strong African Union force in Darfur with a much larger force under the U.N. umbrella, which would be augmented and strengthened with a mandate allowing intervention to stop atrocities in the region.
Mr. Bolton is president of the Security Council for the month of February. It will be very interesting to see how much real activity he can cram into this short month.
Couple Bolton's energetic and determined activism with this report on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's crackdown on the intransigent partisan careerist bureaucrats in her department (courtesy of Captain Ed), and we can feel pretty optimistic about our foreign policy leadership.
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